Activate

Activate is a 3 year initiative to support digital and creative small and medium-sized businesses in the Liverpool City Region by providing access to new technologies, expertise and inspiration for the development of new products for business growth.

Support includes one-to-one guidance, workshops, grants and onward business development support delivered by our expert delivery partners.

Activate has helped us bring SwapBots to market. We have been able to access experts from the world of video games, funding, marketing, UX and user testing.

Phil Charnock, Draw and Code

We’re looking to partner with SMEs in Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens or Wirral, with an interest in exploring the potential of emerging technologies. Activate is open to businesses with fewer than 250 employees, turnovers less than €50 million (around £44 million) and balance sheets of less than €43 million (around £38 million).

A nineteen-year old serial tech entrepreneur has developed the first of its kind mobile app to boost interaction between university students within halls of residence across the Liverpool City Region, following support from the Activate programme of which FACT is a partner organisation.